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This page lists various official sanctioned records achieved in competitive SCRABBLE® play in North America and overseas.

The records in each category are classified further based on the environment (tournament or club) and by the dictionary used (NWL or CSW, ignoring the specific edition).

In the words listed, lowercase letters stand for blanks and paranthesised letters stand for tiles already on the board. An asterisk (*) means that the word is a phoney or that the score is known to include phoneys. An octothorp (#) means that the word is acceptable in CSW but not in NWL.

A question mark means that some detail of the record is unknown or questionable. All records are subject to revision as appropriate. Any scoring and score reporting errors are corrected before considering a play or game for a record, regardless of whether such errors were corrected in tournament standings or not.

Highest opening word score

The theoretical maximum (using either OTCWL or SOWPODS) is 128 for MUZJIKS without blanks.

Tournament, OWL

Score

Word

Name

Date

Location

Notes

126

MuZJIKS

Jesse Inman

July, 2008

Orlando, FL

NSC

124

BEZIQUE

Sam Kantimathi

September, 1993

Portland, OR

Tournament, CSW

Score

Word

Name

Date

Location

Notes

124

BEZIQUE

Joan Rosenthal

1997

OSW?

124

BEZIQUE

Sally Martin

Club, OWL

Score

Word

Name

Date

Location

Notes

114

QWERTYS

Yvonne Lobo

February, 2010

Mississauga, ON

Club #422

Highest closing word score

Phonies are not permitted.

In NASPA play, twice the value of leftover tiles is added to the score of the closing player. In international play, the value of leftover tiles is subtracted from the player's score and added to the closing player's score.

Tournament, OWL

Score

Word

Name

Leftovers

Name

Date

Location

Notes

275

JaNI(Z)ARY

Conrad Bassett-Bouchard

8 (16)

Doug Brockmeier

October 27, 2013

Arcata, CA

143

TRAPEZO(ID)

Shan Abbasi

2 (4)

Matthew Tunnicliffe

September 23, 2012

Toronto, ON

131

SETENANT

Shan Abbasi

9 (18)

Jason Broersma

November 29, 2015

Oshawa, ON

Tournament, CSW

Score

Word

Name

Leftovers

Name

Date

Location

Notes

Club, OWL

Score

Word

Name

Leftovers

Name

Date

Location

Notes

Highest non-bingo word score

Phonies are not permitted.

Tournament, OWL

Score

Word

Name

Date

Location

Notes

243

R(OR)QUALS

Karen Merrill

1997

Portland, OR

Portland Club Tourney

180

GH(ER)KiNS

Robert Kahn

1985

Boston, MA

National SCRABBLE Championship

Tournament, CSW

Score

Word

Name

Date

Location

Notes

Club, OWL

Score

Word

Name

Date

Location

Notes

261

B(RE)EZIER

Jim Kille

April 14, 1993

Exon, PA

Club #333

Highest non-triple-triple word score

Phonies are not permitted.

Records in this category have not been kept systematically, so there could be many higher scores.